K Hospitality Corp is India’s largest privately held F&B company, with 500+ outlets and 6000+ employees across multiple business verticals in the Food and Beverage sector across India and overseas. K Hospitality started its journey in 1972 with the opening of the 1st Copper Chimney in Mumbai, and this year will be celebrating its 50th year in the F&B industry. With over 500+ outlets, serving 35 million customers each year across multiple countries, whether it is an F&B experience on the high street, in a mall, at a banquet, in an airport, highway, or in your office, K Hospitality touches its customers’ lives wherever they enjoy and experience food.
Over the years, Copper Chimney, their flagship restaurant brand, under the business vertical Charcoal Concepts, has won numerous awards and accolades and continues to feature regularly in the news for its award-winning North West Frontier cuisine. Adding another feather to its cap, Copper Chimney under the Charcoal Concepts business vertical of K Hospitality, announced that they are the first restaurant brand in India to accept the government’s newest initiative of the Digital Rupee (e₹), a new form of currency launched by the Reserve Bank of India. Digital Rupee (e₹) payments will now be available at select Copper Chimney’s across India.
Karan Kapur, Executive Director at K Hospitality, said, “It has been an incredible journey that started 50 years ago in 1972 by JK Kapur. We have come a long way, and aspire to keep evolving, innovating and build a stronger relationship with our ever growing family of valued guests, partners and team members. As we celebrate our 50th year, it’s a moment of great pride for our iconic restaurant brand, Copper Chimney to become the first restaurant in India to be selected to accept the newly launched Digital Rupee (e₹). This would have not been possible without our banking partners Yes Bank. With this initiative, we look forward to furthering our goals of providing convenient and innovative solutions to our guests, while supporting the government’s goal on digitization of payments through path breaking options such as UPI and now the Digital Rupee.”
